I 1CTI HI. 111. 89 



({Hand. Inn tin first discovered is a 



1 0111- 



moi; i in partit uhir. It is about the 



fur, !' a pal.- y. I- 



lour, .in<l naked flesh 



1 tail, coated with a kind of .scale-, like t. 

 on llif ta;l ot a rat, hut! i !-s in woods, 



and pre\> principally on birds and tin 



Anton-.: th- Nc\v Holland Opossums the Le- 



ninriiit.- OpovMim i- f the mosl -lr^;iiit : of 



til- size of a C'at, of a line dark-grey colur, yt-llo\s- 



ath ; v. ith an r\ijii ,11 1'ur, and with 



e much rc-cmhlini; th< Lt-mur; the tail 



ply furred, and prehensile at the tip*. 



\ still more el< ^ant kind of \e\v Holland 



P '.unriiH' O/)(>\.fin/i, often i: 



Miring nioie tiiau a \ard in length from the nose 

 t" the tip ot the tail. 'J ' )possum has 



i lie 1 ig Scjuirrel, being 



furnislu-d \\ith a broad furry membrane, from the 



the help of uhieli it springs 



* d. Scinrta is aKo .1 New-Hol- 



land species oi gre:i; ,t the G: 



: white beneath, 

 with ihe tail very lull of hair, and tipprd with bl.: 



